I imagine this might be of concern to shared hosting sites.
Imagine your VM being infected just because the hosting server is infected. In most cases, even if a server is infected, the VM remains in a relatively clean state. Now, just because you're hosted on an infected server, you can get rooted.
They make it easy to browse and discover content. They also have suggestions (if you like this, you might like that). Certainly they have a top N list, but it's certainly not as important to have your book in the top N as it is on an app store.
This reminds me of a scam I heard about years ago.
1) Pick 1024 victims
2) Pick 1 volatile stock
3) To 512 victims, say the price will go up, to the others, say it will go down
4) Wait 5 days, then pick the half which were right
5) GOTO 2 (ok, you could use recursion instead, or a loop)
6) When you get to 8 victims, point out that you've been 100% accurate 6 times in a row and get them to invest a lot of money
7) Profit!
I bet if the platinum cylinder were in orbit, the weight would be way off from 2.2 lbs. It would still be a Kg though (not accounting for missing mass discussed in the NIST article).
In fact, even wikipedia references power monitoring attacks. And, yes, that's been sitting in Wikipedia since before March 2008.
I agree, not really headline news.
Here's a real world example which came up yesterday:
% man getpagesize
...
The function getpagesize() returns the number of bytes in a page, where
a "page" is the thing used where it says in the description of mmap(2)
that files are mapped in page-sized units....
I guess you can decipher this, but perhaps they should use a weaker cipher for writing docs.
gb = 1024**3
tb = 1024**4
mem = int(raw_input("Enter your machine's RAM in GB: ")) * gb
cat = 114*tb
print 'The cat has %d times more RAM than you' % (cat/mem)
Yes, I've only seen the problems under the VM (I haven't had the opportunity to install on real hardware yet). It could be that the VM graphics drivers aren't playing nice with KK (or vice versa).
I have run Jaunty, Hardy, Dapper, FC, and other distributions without any issues on the same VM, so my suspicions are that it might be something with KK. But I don't know for certain.
I have faith that the final release of KK will work swimmingly and I look forward to it.
My experience with 32-bit Karmic (running in a VM) wasn't that great.
The changes to xorg weren't picked up in my VM properly and so I ended up with a small monitor resolution which I couldn't change. There was also a lot of instability with X (I think). After copying an xorg.conf file from Jaunty, the VM wouldn't start X properly and I had to toss the VM. I probably could have fixed it, but there was nothing special on the VM so it was easier to restart.
This is running the VMs under a 64 bit version of Jaunty - with multiple procs assigned to the VM.
Windows? I've had better results running it in a VM. But, I only run Windows a couple of times a year.
What would be extra cool would be to put a touch screen there. Then you can have a user interface to a music player, ability to check mail, etc. without opening your laptop.
It might save on battery life when you don't have to look at the full screen. That's assuming that the smaller screen draws less power.
Also it seems really really processor-hungry on one of my machines. Wish I knew why.
I had to drop back to FF2.0 on my work machine because of this. However, a little bird told me that Mozilla doesn't officially support 64-bit Linux. It's my distribution which has compiled and released it for 64-bit.
On my 32-bit laptop, FF3.0 runs just fine - same distribution, just different architecture.
I'm teaching Python to my kids now (ages 10 & 12). The great thing is that there's an immediate mode, so you can start up the interpreter and play with the language without having to write programs.
Of course, my kids are also programming under Linux, but that's the sign of a parent who cares.
However, as the rootkit is armed with an algorithm that periodically generates new domain names where the malware then looks for new instructions, it is only a matter of time before a new set of control servers is created and used to manipulate one of the biggest spam botnets in the world.
Wouldn't it be possible to grab one of these domain names, then tell the botnet to uninstall the rootkit or something?
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Imagine your VM being infected just because the hosting server is infected. In most cases, even if a server is infected, the VM remains in a relatively clean state. Now, just because you're hosted on an infected server, you can get rooted.
They make it easy to browse and discover content. They also have suggestions (if you like this, you might like that). Certainly they have a top N list, but it's certainly not as important to have your book in the top N as it is on an app store.
This reminds me of a scam I heard about years ago.
1) Pick 1024 victims
2) Pick 1 volatile stock
3) To 512 victims, say the price will go up, to the others, say it will go down
4) Wait 5 days, then pick the half which were right
5) GOTO 2 (ok, you could use recursion instead, or a loop)
6) When you get to 8 victims, point out that you've been 100% accurate 6 times in a row and get them to invest a lot of money
7) Profit!
It's enrypted. Apparently using a lossy enryption sheme.
I bet if the platinum cylinder were in orbit, the weight would be way off from 2.2 lbs. It would still be a Kg though (not accounting for missing mass discussed in the NIST article).
Next thing, it will be making desserts.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Apparently, he may turn in his yellow shirt for a political position: Facebook campaign
In fact, even wikipedia references power monitoring attacks. And, yes, that's been sitting in Wikipedia since before March 2008.
I agree, not really headline news.
WTF is a gym?
A Beowulf cluster of exercise bikes. Duh.
Nice way to promote the app (but shame on the /. editors).
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6562 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM google-chrome
But you are right, I can't find any app called keystone.
% man getpagesize
I guess you can decipher this, but perhaps they should use a weaker cipher for writing docs.
A little Python program to help you out:
gb = 1024**3
tb = 1024**4
mem = int(raw_input("Enter your machine's RAM in GB: ")) * gb
cat = 114*tb
print 'The cat has %d times more RAM than you' % (cat/mem)
Yes, I've only seen the problems under the VM (I haven't had the opportunity to install on real hardware yet). It could be that the VM graphics drivers aren't playing nice with KK (or vice versa).
I have run Jaunty, Hardy, Dapper, FC, and other distributions without any issues on the same VM, so my suspicions are that it might be something with KK. But I don't know for certain.
I have faith that the final release of KK will work swimmingly and I look forward to it.
The changes to xorg weren't picked up in my VM properly and so I ended up with a small monitor resolution which I couldn't change. There was also a lot of instability with X (I think). After copying an xorg.conf file from Jaunty, the VM wouldn't start X properly and I had to toss the VM. I probably could have fixed it, but there was nothing special on the VM so it was easier to restart.
This is running the VMs under a 64 bit version of Jaunty - with multiple procs assigned to the VM.
Windows? I've had better results running it in a VM. But, I only run Windows a couple of times a year.
This was a phishing attack. The strength of the password didn't matter.
The article talks about analysis of password data and doesn't really point out anything we didn't know already.
main(t,_,a)char *a;{return!0 main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):1,t main(2,_+1,"%s %d %d\n"):9:16:t "@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l,+,/n{n+,/+#n+,/#\
q#'+d'K#!/+k#;q#'r}eKK#}w'r}eKK{nl]'/#;#q#n'){)#}w'){){nl]'/+#n';d}rw' i;# \
){nl]!/n{n#'; r{#w'r nc{nl]'/#{l,+'K {rw' iK{;[{nl]'/w#q#n'wk nw'
\
iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%'l##w#' i;
}'+}##(!!/")
I can now copyright the 12 days of Christmas! (Well, if I hadn't ripped the code off from Wikipedia)
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?
There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
-- Gallagher.
I was thinking about this the other day as I was on a plane jammed into a seat with a laptop. I'd love to see this hooked up to something like:
The wall wart
This would make netbooks seem bulky by comparison.
What would be extra cool would be to put a touch screen there. Then you can have a user interface to a music player, ability to check mail, etc. without opening your laptop.
It might save on battery life when you don't have to look at the full screen. That's assuming that the smaller screen draws less power.
Much harder mod though.
Also it seems really really processor-hungry on one of my machines. Wish I knew why.
I had to drop back to FF2.0 on my work machine because of this. However, a little bird told me that Mozilla doesn't officially support 64-bit Linux. It's my distribution which has compiled and released it for 64-bit.
On my 32-bit laptop, FF3.0 runs just fine - same distribution, just different architecture.
I'm teaching Python to my kids now (ages 10 & 12). The great thing is that there's an immediate mode, so you can start up the interpreter and play with the language without having to write programs.
Of course, my kids are also programming under Linux, but that's the sign of a parent who cares.
Wouldn't it be possible to grab one of these domain names, then tell the botnet to uninstall the rootkit or something?
I happened across this article about Eunoia which took 7 years to write. It's a book of poems in which each poem uses a single vowel.
For example, from Chapter E - For Rene Crevel